Documents detailing government desire to monitor social media come less than a week after Snowden slammed GCHQ for secretly trying to pass snooping legislation
The government has handed out cross-Whitehall private contracts to technology firms which will enable it to monitor what members of the public post on social media and blogs in real time, reports h...
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